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It's not as high profile as all the other failings of the last government, but the total collapse of the court system thanks to Chris Grayling is one of the most damning.

The recruitment and treatment of some international University students in the UK is a scandal worthy of far more attention. This is vital reporting from @samirashackle.bsky.social - shining a light on appalling exploitation. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

In 2014, Tareena Shakil ran away to Syria with her toddler. Realising she had made a terrible mistake, she escaped within a few months. After time in prison and a long process of rehabilitation, she is now reinventing herself as a TikTok agony aunt www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

In 2014, Tareena Shakil ran away to Syria with her toddler. Realising she had made a terrible mistake, she escaped within a few months. After time in prison and a long process of rehabilitation, she is now reinventing herself as a TikTok agony aunt www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Hall of fame FT correction

This is catastrophic.

"Even if people are forced to cut back on all other forms of spending, they’ll always need water, energy and somewhere to live." Such a good piece by @hettieobrien.bsky.social, who has an astonishing ability to make clear the human stakes of abstract economics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pretty much everyone involved in overseas student recruitment in the UK — from government officials making the policy down to universities setting targets for students — should read this and feel deeply ashamed.

"Sam needed extra work, and he found shifts at a vegetable packing factory on Dundee’s outskirts, washing and packaging vegetables for Tesco and Aldi. He worked 10-hour shifts at minimum wage. 'By that time, my ego had died, so I had accepted: OK, we can do this,' he told me."

Heartbreaking, maddening, unjust, unwise, cruel, enraging. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

This is great insight. It chimes a lot with my own experience of students and graduates looking for work in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Extraordinary story about British universities' use of unethical student recruitment agencies in India. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

There is finally some excellent reporting on the role of agents in recruiting overseas students to Higher Education. As anyone who works in HE will already know, it is a relentlessly grim situation, but the detail and stories is still shocking to read. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Disturbing account of misinformation and exploitation. "In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate." And word is clearly getting out www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

For my latest Guardian Long Read, I looked at a part of the university funding crisis that doesn't get so much attention: the foreign students stacking up monumental debt to prop the sector up and the sometimes unscrupulous recruitment system that draws them in www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Totally agree with this - the main function of criticism is for someone to engage critically with the work and give their informed opinions/analysis. More broadly, I wonder what the point is in being a writer if you don't want to do the writing? We're definitely not in it for the money.

This is a real cautionary tale for journalists thinking of using AI for editing/amending/adding text to their work www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

This will be great.

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Such a moving interview - well worth you time.

Read this whole thread. Remarkable.

“The usual suspects” being … the police.

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Am fascinated by these cases. It's very reminiscent of Big Tobacco and I hope it will be the start of a similarly meaningful change in how these products are regulated - but I can't help but feel pessimistic given terrible track record on regulating Big Tech www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.

I don’t really see how this doesn’t continue. And tbh I think some of these mainstream numbers seem a bit optimistic. Influencer culture most of the way down is where we are heading, how you inject coherent financially sustainable investigative reporting into that is the scary bit.

This is a delightful article.

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I was totally gripped by this story about an affair between therapist and patient, which went on for a decade and is now the subject of a lawsuit granta.com/transference...

The median age in Britain is about 40. The median Briton has not experienced sustained economic growth in their adult life time.

Let's imagine what this tweet would have looked like if a left-winger had said Jews praying in public was "an act of domination".

The message from Farage is clear. If you're a British Muslim wanting to peacefully exercise your right to pray in public then you're a threat to the nation. If you're a convicted far-right rioter who was part of a violent street mob then you'll get a personal message of endorsement

"If you think that “British Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square to mark the end of the day’s fast” is a greater show of “domination” than anyone praying outside an abortion clinic, then you are hostile to Muslims". Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1609...

Grim read on the seafarers caught up in this. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The government's "earned settlement" proposals "pull the rug from under those who have planned their lives and commitments and are contributing to our economy and to our society...I believe in a country where we keep our word and live up to our values” Absolutely right from Angela Rayner.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Laughed out loud at this. The stupidity! Is! Terrifying!

This is so pointlessly cruel.

Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like. And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

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This is an extraordinarily brave speech.

Ugh. Why? It’s just performative cruelty, trampling over people’s hard won dreams for no clear benefit.

This tweet really lives rent-free in my brain.

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.